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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a placing in public, fr. [GREEK] to set before; [GREEK] before + [GREEK] to set, put.]

(Eccl.)

A credence table; – so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.

(Med.)

See

Dunglison.

Noun.

[Gr.] In surgery, the addition of an artificial part to supply a defect of the body; as a wooden leg, &c.